It doesn't work and I don't know why. Mash keyboard in furious debugging session. It works and I don't know why.

I did a test first of this method and was happy with the results. I also screwed up one of the pieces because I didn't thin the paint enough and it had started drying before I got to the roller part of the process. This was on a 6' x 16" or 1.8m x 406mm. You need to work quick with long boards.

If it doesn't, then the paint wasn't thinned enough with water, the coat was applied too thick, the roller was too wet, or too much time elapsed and the paint has already started to dry while rolling.

You might see an orange-peel effect or lines or blotches, don't be tempted to try and fix that. The lines should go away and the blotches can be fixed with the next coat.

Have a towel or cardboard or something to then blot the roller on. You want to keep the roller as dry as possible. Roll the entire piece in one direction and then again in the opposite.

Once completed leave everything alone and go clean the brush and roller.

At this point, it's OK if it looks a little blotchy or you see brush marks. Now take the roller brush (I used a 6" microfiber brush) and start to roll along the piece. This should start to pick up the excess paint. Use enough pressure so the roller rolls and doesn't slide.

The brush should glide and not stick or grab when smoothing it out. Once fully painted, do a final light stroke the entire length of the piece.

The paints were watered down to a consistency of melted ice cream. There are two coats of primer (tinted black) and two coats of glossy black latex.

First apply the paint using the paint brush (I used a 2-1/2" premium nylon and polyester bristle brush) making sure not to keep it too thin.

I can't get AI to write a functional unit test without smashing my head repeatedly on the keyboard because of how stupid the AI is. There's no way they can use AI to rewrite an entire codebase from one technology to another.

Pong on the TV and Space Invaders at the arcade.